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Raymond Henry Williams est un professeur, essayiste et écrivain originaire du Pays de Galles.

Il est considéré comme l'initiateur du courant des Cultural Studies par ses travaux sur la culture, les médias de masse et la littérature. Ses travaux ont été influencés par le marxisme et il fut une figure influente de la Nouvelle Gauche britannique. Il a enseigné à l'université de Cambridge. Wikipedia

✵ 31. août 1921 – 26. janvier 1988

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Raymond Williams: Citations en anglais

“To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing.”

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Raymond Williams

Resources of Hope (published posthumously in 1989), p. 118

“Real independence is a time of new and active creation: people sure enough of themselves to discard their baggage; knowing the past is past, as shaping history, but with a new confident sense of the present and the future, where the decisive meanings and values will be made.”

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1975

“Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.”

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Raymond Williams livre The Long Revolution

Realism and the Contemporary Novel (1961): The Long Revolution

“Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.”

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Keywords (1983)

“The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.”

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Raymond Williams livre The Long Revolution

Realism and the Contemporary Novel (1961): The Long Revolution

“If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.”

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Reading and Criticism (1950)

“It is as if a really secure nationalism, already in possession of its nation-state, can fail to see itself as 'nationalist' at all. Its own distinctive bonding is perceived as natural and obvious by contrast with the mere projections of any nationalism which is still in active progress and thus incomplete. At this point radicals and minority nationalists emphasize the artificialities of the settled 'common sense' nation-state and to their own satisfaction shoot them to pieces from history and from social theory.”

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Who Speaks For Wales?: Nation, Culture, Identity (published posthumously in 2003), p. 193

“We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.”

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Raymond Williams livre Culture and Society

Culture and Society (1958)

“There has never been a time, until the last fifty years, when a majority of any population had regular and constant access to drama, and used this access. . . . It seems probable that in societies like Britain and the United States more drama is watched in a week or weekend, by the majority of viewers, than would have been watched in a year or in some cases a lifetime in any previous historical period. It is clearly one of the unique characteristics of advanced industrial societies that drama as an experience is now an intrinsic part of everyday life, at a quantitative level which is so very much greater than any precedent as to seem a fundamental qualitative change. Whatever the social and cultural reasons may finally be, it is clear that watching dramatic simulation of a wide range of experiences is now an essential part of our modern cultural pattern.”

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Television: Technology and Cultural Form

“It is then in making hope practical, rather than despair convincing, that we must resume and change and extend our campaigns.”

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"The Politics of Nuclear Disarmament" (1980), in Resources of Hope (1989).

“My own view is that if, in a socialist society, the basic cultural skills are made widely available, and the channels of communication widened and cleared, as much as possible has been done in the way of preparation, and what then emerges will be an actual response to the whole reality, an so valuable.”

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Raymond Williams livre Culture and Society

Culture and Society (1958) p. 283

“The shaping influence of economic change can of course be distinguished, as most notably in the period with which this book is concerned. But the difficulty lies in estimating the final importance of a factor which never, in practice, appears in isolation.”

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Raymond Williams livre Culture and Society

Culture and Society (1958) p. 280